Jean-Claude Juncker, the favourite to be the next head of the EU Commission, has sent out a strong message to David Cameron saying he would not “get on his knees” to secure the British Prime Minister’s backing. In comments made to colleagues behind closed doors and released to the press, the former prime minister of Luxemburg said that he would not give in to Britain’s demands...

London: British Prime Minister David Cameron has called Jean-Claude Juncker to congratulate the man he tried to block from becoming European Commission president. Mr Cameron's failure to prevent Juncker getting the job after a bitter campaign was seen as a blow to the premier that could increase the likelihood of Britain leaving the European Union. A spokesman for the British...

Viewed from North America, where I have been for the past two weeks, events in Europe since the May European Parliament elections have been hard to explain to a distant audience. On the surface, a gigantic tussle surrounds a politician few voters have heard of. The campaign of Jean-Claude Juncker, a former Luxembourg prime minister, to become the EU's chief executive is riddled...

London: British Prime Minister David Cameron has called Jean-Claude Juncker to congratulate the man he tried to block from becoming European Commission president. Mr Cameron's failure to prevent Mr Juncker getting the job after a bitter campaign was seen as a blow to the premier that could increase the likelihood of Britain leaving the European Union. A spokesman for the...

David Cameron has insisted his failure to stop the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker for the EU's top job is not his "last stand" in Europe. The UK prime minister admitted it would make securing the reforms he wants harder but he vowed: "I am not going to back down." EU leaders voted 26-2 to reject Mr Cameron's plea to prevent Mr Juncker becoming European Commission president....

David Cameron immigration speech live

published:28 Nov 2014

David Cameron immigration speech li

David Cameron immigration speech live

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15.33: Gianni Pittella, the Italian lea...

Parliament criticises UK for opposing Juncker as next Commission president

published:13 Jun 2014

Parliament criticises UK for opposi

Parliament criticises UK for opposing Juncker as next Commission president

The European Parliament told EU council president Herman Van Rompuy on Thursday to nominate EPP Jean Claude Juncker as the next commission president. Parliament leaders warned that the Chamber is read...

David Cameron immigration speech live

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Goodbye.
15.33: Gianni Pittella, the Italian leader of Socialist MEPs in the European Parliament, tells Cameron he can't be a picky eater with the menu of Europe
Well, he said it better: “It is not something that we agree with. Europe is not a menu where you can choose what you like and throw what you don’t like in the garbage. We don’t want to see Mr Cameron chasing after Ukip on this issue. He should stick to European values."
15.24: Philip Davies welcomed David Cameron's immigration speech, but pushed him to go further, and leave the EU.
Mr Davies, the MP for Shipley is a member of the Better Off Out group, regularly confronts Cameron over Europe so his views are perhaps not that surprising.
The MP “I want to get all powers back. We want to go in the same direction; I would go much further than him. He probably hopes that he can renegotiate acceptable terms for staying in the EU. I just don’t think that’s possible.
"The EU are never going to give up on free movement of people. Whilst that’s the case, I don’t think that will be acceptable to the British public."
15.09: Here is the video of the alarm going off during Cameron's speech
14.54: The European Commission is clearly unhappy with David Cameron’s implied threat of leaving the EU if he doesn’t get his way.
Bruno Waterfield sends this: Asked if “slamming the door” was a helpful way to negotiate, the commission and Jean-Claude Juncker’s spokesman replied: “We have to look at these British views without melodrama to see how we can address these issues between partners. Slamming the door? No, that does not constitute calm dialogue without melodrama.”
“These are UK ideas and they are part of the debate. They will have to be examined without drama and should be discussed calmly and carefully. It is up to national lawmakers to fight against abuses of the system and EU law allows for this.”
Juncker: Tired of the melodrama
14.31: Isabel Hardman has written a column for The Spectator entitlted: Enraged euro-rebels threaten trouble after Cameron’s immigration speech fails to satisfy
She writes: "Based on conversations I’ve had this morning with the key movers and shakers in the eurosceptic wing of the Tory party, he hasn’t got very close to settling the issue at all. Indeed, I suspect that there will be trouble before long."

Parliament criticises UK for opposing Juncker as next Commission president

The European Parliament told EU council president Herman Van Rompuy on Thursday to nominate EPP Jean Claude Juncker as the next commission president. Parliament leaders warned that the Chamber is ready to veto any other candidates.
Despite having the support of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Juncker is facing fierce opposition from some countries including the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden.
"Unfortunately we observe a rather dirty campaign against Mr Juncker and I think that this isn't the way that we should proceed as democrats." said EPP chairman Manfred Weber.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has repeatedly emphasised his opposition to Juncker; he views the former Luxembourg Prime Minister as an old-style federalist who might obstruct his push for a reformed EU.
But EPP chairman Manfred Weber underlined that the UK has no right to veto and cannot dictate the EU's political agenda.
"The UK is one state out of 28, there is no right of veto and it is not right for the UK to dictate the agenda across Europe." said Weber.
EU leaders are expected to choose their candidate for the presidency at a summit at the end of this month.

duration:1:16

published:13 Jun 2014

updated:13 Jun 2014

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Cameron hails all party support against Juncker bid

David Cameron says there is a political consensus in Westminster against Jean-Claude Juncker becoming president of the European Commission. The prime ministe...

UKIP Nigel Farage on David Cameron BBC 9th Dec 11

What Will The Election Mean For Investors?

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If the polls are to be believed, we’re heading for another day of indecision on May 7th. What’s the likely outcome and what will it mean for us as investors?
Opinion pollsters have about as good a track record of predicting election results as analysts have of forecasting share prices. Abysmal. So what are we to make of their current claim that we’ll end up with a rainbow coalition when all the votes are counted?
History tells us that we can ignore mid-term by-election results. They get used as a stick to beat the government with. When it comes to the general election, people tend to revert to type. So let’s have a look at some of the big questions. First, Red Ed Milliband. With approval ratings well below even those of Michael Foot, he does not start the campaign as favourite. Almost every time he opens his mouth it’s to slag off business in one way or another. His ridiculous attack on energy companies’ prices led to their shares tanking. His latest outpouring about grabbing corporation tax from multi-nationals shows his failure to grasp some basic facts about globalisation. His threat of a mansion tax has hammered the London property market.
And of course, with a Labour victory we wouldn’t have just one Ed in Downing Street but two. And they’re both very good at talking balls. Their only answer to the challenge we face is Labour’s lifelong favourite, tax and spend. Yes of course they’ll try to woo the City with talk of cuts, but if a Tory led coalition has failed to reduce public spending what serious chance do you think there is that a Labour government would oversee deep and meaningful cuts?
The second big question surrounds UKIP. Emboldened by the European elections and two parliamentary by election wins, they have to be taken seriously this time round. They’ve also attracted some heavy duty funding so they can field a lot more candidates. There’s no sign of any deal with the Tories so it looks like they want to slug it out seat by seat. The beer-swilling, fag smoking Nigel Farage may appeal to White Van Man as well as disaffected Conservatives, so it’s hard to predict which major party will be most damaged by UKIP. I suspect David Cameron will wake up on the 8th May wishing that he had cut a deal with Farage. I also have a sense that Cameron is tired of politics and wouldn’t be too upset to hand over the reins to Boris after an election defeat.
Conventional wisdom has it that the Lib Dems will be toast. It’s hard to separate them from what the Tories have done in office so it’ll be fascinating to see how they try to re-write history during the campaign. But there’s an important lesson here for the likes of UKIP, the SNP and the Greens. While they may be salivating over holding a balance of power and having seats in the cabinet, it’s much easier to be a Protest Party on the outside looking in. Once you become part of the government, the electorate perceives you as being part of the problem. You lose your identity and decades of work building a following can disappear by the time of the next election. It’s possible that history will not be kind to the Deputy Prime Minister if his party all but disappears from Parliament in a couple of months time. So the moral is, be careful who you partner with.
As an investor, my biggest fear is the compromises and concessions that will be given during the horse trading to form a coalition. Choose what you like – higher property taxes, new taxes on company profits, re-imposing restrictions on what we can do with our pensions. I cannot see a scenario in which those who’ve managed to accumulate some wealth and some assets won’t be clobbered by anything other than an outright conservative majority. If you haven’t already started work on an escape plan, can I respectfully suggest that you get your finger out.
If you’ve got your head in the sand taking no interest in the election battlefield, be very careful out there!

duration:4:40

published:05 Mar 2015

updated:05 Mar 2015

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UKIP Nigel Farage The UK will leave the European Union Oct 2014

This video is posted as an excuse to provide a link to, and some of, the following article about coming events at the European Union, according to the author. The link is here:
http://wakeup-world.com/2014/10/29/media-goes-quiet-as-eu-takes-more-powers-from-the-uk/?utm_campaign=Wake+Up+World+e-Newsletter&utm_content=Latest+Headlines+inc.+Time+and+Torsion+in+a+Conscious%2C+Holographic+Universe&utm_medium=email&utm_source=getresponse
29th October 2014
Media Quiet As EU Takes More Power from UK
By Peter Paul Parker
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
I can still recall the first TV clip, which was my introduction to the European Parliament, where I witnessed the MEP’s being asked to hurry up on their decisions on the directives being put forward, as lunch was looming and they wanted to get through the pile in order to have lunch on time. Also the electronic voting system had failed and it was being processed on a show of hands, which looked impossible to call because of the spread of the chamber.
Before even researching into how the European Union worked, I realised there was something very wrong going on here. If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be a fantastic Monty Python sketch. Today it seems far more sinister though, as the agenda has now moved on — and what is coming on the 1st November 2014 is not getting a mention in our mainstream media here in the UK. The silence is simply unbelievable.
Creeping Tyranny
We are supposed to live in a sovereign country here in the UK, so I am absolutely staggered to see that every nation state in the European Union will lose the right to veto on 43 areas of legislation when a system called Quality Majority Voting comes into being on 1st November 2014. There are 43 areas that this will affect, and many of them should be big talking points, so the absence of discussion in mainstream media is raising red flags among many people here.
Because of the theatre that is political programming on British TV, the wider British public doesn’t understand that by submitting to the EU’s QMV system, the following areas of legislation will be given over to EU powers: asylum seekers, border controls, common defence, crime prevention initiatives, criminal law, culture, economic and social committee, emergency international aid, energy, European Central Bank, European Court of Justice, Europol, freedom of movement of workers, freedom to establish a business, general economic interest, intellectual property, sport, tourism, transport and withdrawal of a member state to mention just a few. Essentially, these areas of government are going to be controlled from Brussels and we, as a country, will only have a vote in the outcome rather than a right to veto.
When are people going to stand up and take responsibility for their children’s future? This creeping tyranny will drag Europe into the dark ages.
Another factor people don’t seem to understand is that the Lisbon Treaty is a self amending treaty and therefore, there will be no need for any other treaty to be written. This is why the UK politicians could speak with such passion and fervour after the Lisbon treaty had been signed, assuring the UK public that we will definitely get a say in the next constitutional change, realising that no such constitutional change will ever happen. That we have been manipulated on such a grand scale is breathtaking, and yet still, the majority of Europe’s people seem willing to crawl into this mess.
If the Lisbon Treaty is fully instigated – and I believe that the ‘powers that shouldn’t be’ are pushing for this by 2017 – there will have no areas of governance left for us to have a say in. All we will be doing is sending MEP’s into the impotent European Parliament to vote on meaningless changes to meaningless directives, in a sad parody of democracy. And it will be job done, as far as the people behind it are concerned. We will live in a Super State. We will have representation in our region, but it will be meaningless as the state’s direction will have nothing to do with our communities.
Is this why David Cameron is pushing the referendum on the UK’s membership in the EU into the long grass? It seems that there is nothing that these people won’t do to get their agenda in place.

duration:2:54

published:30 Oct 2014

updated:30 Oct 2014

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SHOULD BRITAIN LEAVE THE EU

I know that it is a very long video but it is worth a watch none the less. if your not sure on whether the EU is good for Britain, this debate should really clarify which side of the fence you sit on. UKIP is the only party that totally supports leaving the EU. Cameron gave you a "cast iron guarantee" on a referendum on the EU. Quite frankly he lied to the people that voted for him. I advise that you watch this video the whole way through. See how the audience, when given the facts, figures and home truths about the EU, do a full 180 and vote to leave.

duration:47:01

published:15 Jan 2015

updated:15 Jan 2015

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Nigel Farage: Democracy and Self-Government now Staging a Fightback

European Parliament, Strasbourg, 16 January 2013 • Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Co-President of the 'Europe of Fr...

EU Budget: British taxpayers paying more, get less in return - @JonathanArnott

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• European Parliament, Strasbourg, 16 December 2014
• Jonathan Arnott MEP (North East), UK Independence Party (UKIP), Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group. www.jonathanarnott.co.uk @JonathanArnott
• Debate: Joint debate - Budgets 2014 and 2015
New general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015
- Report: Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Monika Hohlmeier (A8-0067/2014)
Report on the Council position on the new draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015
[16739/2014 - C8-0287/2014 - 2014/2224(BUD)]
Committee on Budgets
Draft amending budget No 3/2014: Revenue from fines, interest payments, reimbursements and repayments – Payment appropriations – Establishment plans of the Commission, the Committee of the Regions and the European Data Protection Supervisor
- Report: Gérard Deprez (A8-0069/2014)
Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III – Commission
[16740/2014 - C8-0289/2014 - 2014/2036(BUD)]
Committee on Budgets
Draft amending budget No 4/2014: Traditional own resources (TOR), VAT and Gross National Income (GNI) bases
- Report: Gérard Deprez (A8-0076/2014)
Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III - Commission
[16741/2014 - C8-0290/2014 - 2014/2053(BUD)]
Committee on Budgets
Draft amending budget No 5/2014: Floods in Italy (Sardinia) in 2013 - Earthquakes in Greece - Ice in Slovenia - Ice followed by floods in Croatia in 2014
- Report: Gérard Deprez (A8-0078/2014)
Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III - Commission
[16742/2014 - C8-0291/2014 - 2014/2073(BUD)]
Committee on Budgets
Draft amending budget No 6/2014: Revision of the forecast of traditional own resources, VAT and GNI contributions
- Report: Gérard Deprez (A8-0074/2014)
Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 6/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III – Commission
[16743/2014 - C8-0288/2014 - 2014/2162(BUD)]
Committee on Budgets
Draft amending budget No 7/2014: Floods in Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria
- Report: Gérard Deprez (A8-0072/2014)
Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 7/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III - Commission
[16744/2014 - C8-0292/2014 - 2014/2163(BUD)]
Committee on Budgets
Draft amending budget No 8/2014: Surplus resulting from the implementation of the budget year 2013
- Report: Gérard Deprez (A8-0079/2014)
Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 8/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III – Commission
[16745/2014 - C8-0293/2014 - 2014/2225(BUD)]
Committee on Budgets
Mobilisation of the Contingency Margin in 2014
- Report: Gérard Deprez (A8-0068/2014)
Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on mobilisation of the Contingency Margin, in accordance with point 14 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management
[COM(2014)0328 - C8-0020/2014 - 2014/2037(BUD)]
Committee on Budgets
Union own resources – adjustment of Member States' national contributions
- Report: Gérard Deprez, Janusz Lewandowski (A8-0066/2014)
Report on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1150/2000 implementing Decision 2007/436/EC, Euratom on the system of the European Communities' own resources
[COM(2014)0704 - C8-0250/2014 - 2014/0332(NLE)]
Committee on Budgets
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duration:2:13

published:16 Dec 2014

updated:16 Dec 2014

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Nigel Farage-Ukraine The EU is to Blame

Nigel Farage-Ukraine The EU is to Blame
Situation in Ukraine and state of play of EU-Russia relations 16/09/2014

duration:3:26

published:16 Sep 2014

updated:16 Sep 2014

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Al Jazeera: Head to Head at Oxford Union, Margot Parker from UKIP is ridiculous !

duration:2:10

published:17 Dec 2014

updated:17 Dec 2014

views:3290

Immigration figures are shocking says Nigel Farage

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duration:12:30

published:27 Nov 2014

updated:27 Nov 2014

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Nigel Farage on issues UKIP will focus on for general election

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Burton High Fives - Competitions Start Tomorrow

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